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Jody Crutchley; Zaki Nahaboo; Namrata Rao – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
The fragmentation of academic work and its uneven distribution among academic staff have produced particular challenges for new entrants to teaching in Higher Education, Early Career Teachers [ECTs]. In this paper, documentary analysis of the narratives of fourteen ECTs, who worked across six different continents, was undertaken. The findings…
Descriptors: Novices, College Faculty, Teaching Experience, Expectation
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Ramjattan, Vijay A. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
International teaching assistants (ITAs) are criticized for having 'unintelligible' accents for professional communication in Global North English-medium universities. Furthermore, this criticism takes a racist form as it is frequently directed at racially minoritized ITAs. This article complicates this narrative by considering how the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Assistants, Foreign Nationals, Communication Skills
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Morten Greaves – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
This autoethnographic study explores the lived-experiences and academic perceptions of a first-year non-Lebanese assistant professor working in a private English language university in Lebanon during a period of socioeconomic turmoil. The PI kept an autoethnographic journal throughout the Spring 2020 semester, and data from this journal is…
Descriptors: Foreign Nationals, College Faculty, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
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Rao, Namrata; Mace, Will; Hosein, Anesa; Kinchin, Ian M. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
This paper investigates the underexplored area of "othering" of migrant academics within their teaching context. Nine personal narratives of migrant academics' teaching were analysed qualitatively for indications of pedagogical othering. Migrant academics indicated the need to align their own pedagogic values and practices with that of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Mobility, Migrants, Foreign Nationals
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Mahon, Kathleen; Dentler, Sigrid; Seipel, Sina – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
The complexity and challenges of higher education (HE) in recent times have been widely discussed in HE literature, as have concomitant demands on university teachers and their professional learning needs. Much attention has been paid to new academics in these conversations, but less so to international PhD and post-doctoral researchers, who are…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Career Development, Self Esteem, Hermeneutics
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Luxon, Tony; Peelo, Moira – Teaching in Higher Education, 2009
Conceptualisations of internationalisation remain limited as long as the implications for pedagogy of an increasingly international teaching staff remain unexamined. Non-UK staff securing posts that involve teaching at British universities face substantial practical, cultural and linguistic challenges that impact on and, in some cases, inhibit,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Faculty, Foreign Nationals